Ross Ramsey

Ross Ramsey

Ross Ramsey
is managing editor of The Texas Tribune and continues as
editor of Texas Weekly, the premier newsletter on government and
politics in the Lone Star State, a role he's had since September 1998.
Texas Weekly was a print-only journal when he took the reins in 1998; he
switched it to a subscription-based, internet-only journal by the end
of 2004 without a significant loss in subscribers. As Texas Weekly's
primary writer for 11 years, he turned out roughly 2 million words in
more than 500 editions, added an online library of resources and
documents and items of interest to insiders, and a daily news clipping
service that links to stories from papers across Texas. Before joining
Texas Weekly in September 1998, Ramsey was associate deputy comptroller
for policy with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, also working
as the agency's director of communications. Prior to that 28-month stint
in government, Ramsey spent 17 years in journalism, reporting for the
Houston Chronicle from its Austin bureau and for the Dallas Times
Herald, first on the business desk in Dallas and later as the paper's
Austin bureau chief. Prior to that, as a Dallas-based freelance business
writer, he wrote for regional and national magazines and newspapers.
Ramsey got his start in journalism in broadcasting, working for almost
seven years covering news for radio stations in Denton and Dallas.